The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1887-02-02
Doing A DOCTOR.
A Medical Man Deprived OF the fieas-
ure of Performing an operation.
NJ. Quad in Detroit Free Press.l

A Medical Man Deprived 0f the Fieas-
ure OF Performing an operation.
IN Quad in Detroit Free Pressl
There are a good many features about
that throat disease called quinsy. You
can never mistake it for the smallpox.
and you never have suspicion that you
may have fallen from the roof OF a three
story building aud broken fotsy or more
bones in your body. You go to bed feel
ing in excellent spirits and willing to pay
l2O cents ON the dollar. Soon after mid
nipht-as soon after as the ailment can
4 make it convepient--you wake up with
horrible backache and a hard chill. You
needn't Hstter yourself that you are CON-
ing down with diphtheria, typhoid fever
or some other disease which will cause
your friends to anxiously inquire If you
have made your will and own lot
in EImwood You are simply booked
for fourteen days wrestle with com
mon, one-horse affair. aud the sooner you
eettle uO"u 10 IL bue pS'tei iol al SS"-
cerned.
You may gargle all the gargles ever IN
vented, but the throat grows worse.
For two or three days the doctor can
place the handle of a spoon on your
tongue and get sight of what is behind,
but you suddenly discover in your mad
career that you have "shut your head. I"
The jaws have taken great liking to
each other, aud the doctor has to quit.
Then you'll turn to fax-eed poultices. 1t
doesn't do anybody good, as anybody can
say, but You'll try it. Furthermore,
you'll get hot compound of hops and
vinegar and try steaming. That never
helped anybody, but its fashionable to
try it. All the glands and cords and
tendons from the ear down to the shoul.
der begin to tighten up, the orevice be-
tween your teeth closes at last, and there
you are. II some butcher cart hasn't
run over you and knocked some of your
teeth out it won't be any use to try
soups and gruels II you've got two or
three places where the Cruel can sneak in
you'll presently wish you hadn't Every
time you swallow you are lifted sixteen
inches Off the chair, and it's a health lift
which you get tired Of after three or four
attempts.
ha nth IL
swollen nearly shut, my jaw "sot. every
gland and cord as sore as a boil aud my
windpipe nearly closed, the doctor looked
me over and made little speech |
shall remember his every word for the
next hundred years. He said:
"Well. something has got to be done
Your throat has got to be lanced I've
been expecting for day or two that it
would come to this"
Aud he lay back in his chair and licked
his chops-~yes, sir, smacked his lips like
boy eating q rich plum
Eyes, III be up after dinner, he con.
tiuued, signing heavily to think he wasn't
equipped then "Youd better lie down
aud prepare yourself"
/ tumbed into bed wondering if Prov
idence wouldn't take him off during the
afternoon and slept to dream that was
ON dissecting table and twelve medical
students were carving away at my body.
Providence spared the doctor. He
didn't even have narrow escape. He
was on hand soon after dinner, a smile
of satisfaction on his face, and he was fol.
lowed by meek-looking young man,
whom he introduced as medical stu
dent. ..lA 4.g ae5ga.
:Now," said the doctor, "don't get